Can't print after CUPS update this morning?

Bob Goodwin bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
Fri May 19 11:33:27 UTC 2006


Henry Ritzlmayr wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 18.05.2006, 19:34 -0400 schrieb Bob Goodwin:
>   
>> Henry Ritzlmayr wrote: 
>>     
>>> Same thing here. 
>>> Going back to cups-1.1.23-30.2 (and libs) enables printing again. 
>>>
>>> Am Donnerstag, den 18.05.2006, 09:17 -0400 schrieb Bob Goodwin:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Jonathan Underwood wrote:
>>>>         
>> Rpm won't permit me to remove and replace,  or perhaps I don't know
>> how to tell it to do so?
>>
>> If I use rpm -e it protests about dependencies, and --force only works
>> on installs!
>>
>> How do I undo the update?  
>>     
>
> By "installing" the older versions:
>
> rpm -Uvh --force cups-1.1.23-30.2.i386.rpm
> cups-libs-1.1.23-30.2.i386.rpm
>
> will do the job.
>
> Henry
>   
Henry, Paul, Tim, et.al.:

Thanks for the help.

[root at box1 dvdfc5]# rpm -Uvh --oldpackage  cups-*
Preparing...                ########################################### 
[100%]
   1:cups-libs              ########################################### 
[ 25%]
   2:cups                   warning: /etc/cups/cupsd.conf created as 
/etc/cups/cupsd.conf.rpmnew
warning: /etc/cups/mime.types created as /etc/cups/mime.types.rpmnew
warning: /etc/cups/printers.conf created as /etc/cups/printers.conf.rpmnew
########################################### [ 50%]
   3:cups-devel             ########################################### 
[ 75%]
   4:cups-lpd               ########################################### 
[100%]

The above did the trick and once again my CUPS configuration looks 
normal and I can access cups-admin!

Again I thank you.

Bob Goodwwin   Zuni, Virginia   w2bod




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